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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Reflections<br />
Hispanic and Latinx Voices<br />
Global Local<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Voices of Ugandan<br />
Students<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Congratulations<br />
Video of the Month<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Calendar<br />
Global Health Family<br />
Photo News<br />
Resources<br />
Elké Calero-Sweeney<br />
A Mental Health Professional and a Community Advocate<br />
Elké is a Bi-lingual and Bi-cultural Mental Health<br />
Clinician who works as a Clinical Social Worker for the<br />
State of CT, Coalition Director of Prevention Services<br />
with Stand Together Make a Difference - MCCA,<br />
Clinical Consultant at LYFE Detention Center, and<br />
Adjunct Professor. Elke is also a member of the Board<br />
of Directors for the Harambee Youth & Community<br />
Center, and the National Organization of Black Girl<br />
Health.<br />
Elke has 29 years of psycho-educational, counseling, and clinical experience. A<br />
graduate from WCSU with a bachelor’s degree in social work, and a master’s<br />
degree of Clinical Social Work from Fordham University, she is the first-born<br />
indigenous Latina college graduate in her family. Her daughter, Tehya, is the firstborn<br />
college graduate on her father’s side of the family.<br />
Elke was born in Stamford, CT and is the first-born United States generation<br />
from immigrant parents. As a child and youth, Elke’s frequent visits and stays in<br />
Peru, where most of her family reside, exposed her to conditions of poverty and<br />
femicide, and issues of indigenous rights, which paved the pathway for her work in<br />
advocacy, trauma intervention and prevention, and mental health therapy.<br />
Elke dedicates her clinical and educational skills to communities that have been<br />
economically and socially marginalized and have the least amount of access to<br />
culturally responsive treatment, therapy, and education. She focuses on the social<br />
determinants of health, complex trauma, substance misuse prevention, and under<br />
resourced communities impacted by oppressive systems. She incorporates her<br />
cultural indigenous healing practices into her clinical therapeutic skills.<br />
Elke gives back into her community by providing advocacy skills and worker’s<br />
rights for immigrant communities - specifically day laborers. She also provides<br />
pro-bono assessments for Immigrant attorney’s and provides comprehensive<br />
sex-education and harm reduction workshops for youth. Elke has been living in<br />
the City of Danbury, CT since 1999 and continues to live, work, and volunteer in<br />
the city that she loves and cares for, focusing on creating a safer and healthier<br />
community. She follows the mission of the Harambee Youth Center “All Together,<br />
We Pull Together”, and the mission of her prevention coalition work “Stand<br />
Together, Make a Difference”.<br />
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